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11-22-2006, 04:02 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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How Big Is Your Bird?
 Whats she weigh and how many are dining on her? We got a 27 pounder (not inches  ) and we got 8 for dinner!  Can you say tryptophan? 
Sidenote: Who eats the turkey neck? It was always a tradition for me at my Moms growing up......I love it! Its the tastiest part of the turkey IMO! |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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11-22-2006, 04:04 PM
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Fishing Chauffeur
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: raynham mass
Posts: 2,227
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10lb
for 4 of us smallest bird I ever had cant eat none but thats allright.
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11-22-2006, 04:05 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
Posts: 21,463
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Ours is 19 and it's big enough. Over 20 and it becomes more difficult to cook evenly...
Put the neck in the roasting pan and let it add some caramelized goodness to the drippings for the gravy.
My menu for tomorrow:
- Calvados-Laced Squash Soup with Cinnamon and Bay Leaves
- Roast Turkey with Herb Butter and Caramelized-Onion Gravy
- Leek and Wild Mushroom Stuffing
- Red Potatoes Tossed in Roasted-Garlic Butter with Sage and Bacon
- Green Beans with Orange and Rosemary Gremolata
- Cassis-Spiked Cranberry Sauce
- Good old Apple Pie
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11-22-2006, 04:37 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: somewhere on a rock
Posts: 1,603
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Quote:
Originally Posted by spence
Ours is 19 and it's big enough. Over 20 and it becomes more difficult to cook evenly...
Put the neck in the roasting pan and let it add some caramelized goodness to the drippings for the gravy.
My menu for tomorrow:
- Calvados-Laced Squash Soup with Cinnamon and Bay Leaves
- Roast Turkey with Herb Butter and Caramelized-Onion Gravy
- Leek and Wild Mushroom Stuffing
- Red Potatoes Tossed in Roasted-Garlic Butter with Sage and Bacon
- Green Beans with Orange and Rosemary Gremolata
- Cassis-Spiked Cranberry Sauce
- Good old Apple Pie
-spence |
nice lineup spence
birds 20 in our home with 8 eating |
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11-22-2006, 04:11 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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I'm go over in laws so no cooking for me. My friends brother raised his own last year and it weighed 43 pounds dressed out. He said it will be bigger this year.
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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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11-22-2006, 05:29 PM
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Registered Grandpa
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: east coast
Posts: 8,592
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ProfessorM
I'm go over in laws so no cooking for me. My friends brother raised his own last year and it weighed 43 pounds dressed out. He said it will be bigger this year.
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Geez P. over #43, did he start cookin it yesterday.   |
" Choose Life "
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11-22-2006, 05:38 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Newport, RI
Posts: 2,316
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ProfessorM
I'm go over in laws so no cooking for me. My friends brother raised his own last year and it weighed 43 pounds dressed out. He said it will be bigger this year.
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That's an intimidating turkey. I used to work on a turkey farm as a kid. They were almost as tall as me when they got that big. You do NOT want a bird that big attacking your shins with it's talons, whether you're still a kid or all grown up....
The big ones seems to get territorial... |
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11-22-2006, 04:12 PM
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Soggy Bottom Boy
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Billerica, Ma.
Posts: 7,260
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BigFish
Sidenote: Who eats the turkey neck? It was always a tradition for me at my Moms growing up......I love it! Its the tastiest part of the turkey IMO! |
Do you eat it the long way 
ours is 18 pounds we are haveing 8 for dindin
Last edited by tattoobob; 11-22-2006 at 04:55 PM..
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Surfcasting Full Throttle
Don't judge me Monkey 
Recreational Surfcaster 99.9% C&R
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11-22-2006, 05:54 PM
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West Siiiiiiiiide
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: San Francisco
Posts: 405
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How do you cook a bird that big?!
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Lookin for my big'un!
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11-22-2006, 06:22 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Burlington
Posts: 2,290
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I have two boids - each weighing 14 1/2 lbs. We cook them for a family gathering of 16. It is easier to cook two birds and all the stuffings - that eliminates the battle over the drumsticks and dark meat against the white meet. After carving the meat left over is usually 1/2 a breast of turky. 
I also personaly think smaller birds are tastier and do not dry out as the biguns sometimes do. |
low & slow 37
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11-22-2006, 06:27 PM
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Wishin' for fishin'
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Brockton
Posts: 1,651
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I had a 2 pound Perdue chicken for supper tonight from one of the the food pantrys here in Brockton, I was thankful.
Does that count ?
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11-22-2006, 06:34 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: RI
Posts: 5,704
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Not to big.
Jane is going to have dinner with her mother at the nursing home and I'm gonna cook a small 11lb bird for my myself and my dad.
Not the Thanksgiving we had planned but her mother is doing better and my dad is well.
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11-22-2006, 07:20 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Marshfield, MA
Posts: 6,267
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no cooking until Sat for me....then I am cooking a 14lb Bird and a Ham....for 4......
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11-22-2006, 07:24 PM
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Permanently Disconnected
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 12,647
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We had a 22 lber on sunday at Dad's that fed 11 with 5 of them being kids.
We're having a 26.5 lber tomorrow here for us FOUR
BURP  |
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11-22-2006, 07:42 PM
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Salt of the Earth
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Suburbia, RI
Posts: 1,025
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i havent weighed it......i'd say mine is only 10-12lbs but i got it free from work so i cant complain
fresh not frozen
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11-22-2006, 08:37 PM
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Finally
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: FL
Posts: 7,181
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11-22-2006, 10:13 PM
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<><><><><><><>
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: somewhere on a rock
Posts: 1,603
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strike king..............I love your avatar
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11-22-2006, 10:25 PM
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Got Necco's?
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Franklin
Posts: 1,339
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we have a 23 pounder at my parents house tomorrow, then another 23 pounder in a few weeks. I am a turkey hound!
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HAMMER TIME! 
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11-23-2006, 12:43 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: North Shore
Posts: 1,701
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BigFish
Whats she weigh and how many are dining on her? We got a 27 pounder (not inches ) and we got 8 for dinner! Can you say tryptophan?
Sidenote: Who eats the turkey neck? It was always a tradition for me at my Moms growing up......I love it! Its the tastiest part of the turkey IMO! |
We have 24 coming over and are cooking two birds at 20-pounds each ...
... prepared them last night until 12:15 a.m. ... bed at 1 a.m. ... then got up at 4 a.m. to put one in the oven ... back up at 5 a.m. to check on it ... then back up at 6 a.m. because of little miss Sydney -- my daughter who's just under 2 yrs and up ever since preparing for the day and playing with Sydney ... yikes!
As for the turkey necks ... Julie wanted to keep them in a pot outside, covered ... I warned her against racoons ... but go figure, we come down, let the dog out, continue working and go check on the dog ... both turkey necks eaten by dog and gizzards all over the courtyard ... Oh Well ... it felt a little like that move "A Christmas Story" when they guys turkey gets trashed ... all's well now.
Enjoy |
"It was the blackest night! There was no moon in sight! (You know the stars ain't shinnin cause the sky's too tight) "
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11-23-2006, 01:12 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Uh, in a spot....
Posts: 5,451
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In Provincetown the necks are very popular!   |
Why even try......... 
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11-23-2006, 01:29 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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measured it
22 inches long by 16 inches wide
for a family of 2 |
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11-23-2006, 01:56 PM
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Seal Control
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Caver, Ma.
Posts: 3,875
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23# family of 4 with taters, squash, turnip, stuffing, biscuits pumpkin pie, Banana bread, cranberry
All the regular stuff nothing fancy!!
Will have sandwiches for a day or so then the rest will end up being soup!
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"All my friends are Flakes!!"
BOATLESS 
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11-23-2006, 03:24 PM
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Permanently Disconnected
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 12,647
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BELCH  |
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11-23-2006, 03:50 PM
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Soggy Bottom Boy
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Billerica, Ma.
Posts: 7,260
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OMG I am so full, nap time.
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Surfcasting Full Throttle
Don't judge me Monkey
Recreational Surfcaster 99.9% C&R
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11-24-2006, 11:53 AM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
Posts: 9,511
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Leftover turkey dark meat and stuffing sandwiches on swedish rye bread. Montillio's coconut creme pie. mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Had my brother over, squid kid's dad, and most of the rest of the fam. Its nice to see my mother eat a full meal. Three months ago she had a tumr removed from her stomach.
My brother-in-law showed up with my sister and he never leaves the house on holidays.
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Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
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11-26-2006, 12:36 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: PHX AZ its a DRY HEAT 122
Posts: 244
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18 lb. 1 cooked in a trash can (mine). 3 deep fried. its a big clan. oh by the way we ate outside in 75 degree. did think of you though....
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